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Lieutenant Lupinus

"I give up," you try to cry, but only a loud howl pierces the air. The men raise their guns... but the tall man yells, "HOLD YOUR FIRE! He's coming quietly." The men quickly file away, and you are left with the enormously tall man, standing amid corpses and wreckage in the town square.

"So... I take it you're a beginner to werewolfism?" He gives a grin. You notice his teeth aren't human - they're all fangs, just like... yours?

"Your teeth..." you say, in werewolf growls.

"Yes. When you are a werewolf for a very long time, it begins to creep into your human appearance. In my old job, I used to frighten people by scratching myself with my legs, or lapping up soup with a two-foot-long tongue at meal times." The man laughs slightly, but you can tell he's actually quite sad.

"You're a werewolf, too?" you ask.

"Yep. For over 700 years, now. For most of the time, I was a storybook werewolf - I haunted the countryside, howling at the moon and killing, dismembering, and eating all in my path. About one hundred years ago, though, I realized I could control my lycanthropy. I was recruited by a special unit known as 'Werewolf Squad' - a top secret organisation that maintains peace when all others fail... the last line of defense, if you will. All its members are werewolves, and all are at least 100 years old."

"And you came here to... what? Recruit me?" you snarl, feeling almost insulted.

"Yep, exactly. Werewolves are hard to come by these days - we can't just bite people in the street anymore. Even if we explained to them all the risks and awful crushing loneliness... it would still be illegal. We can only recruit from wild wolves or, like yourself, scientific wolves... wolves created in lab accidents. So, will you join us?"

Do bears shit in the woods?! You nod your head vigorously.

"Welcome aboard! I'm Lieutenant Edward Terranious Vyrik... but you can call me 'Lieutenant Lupinus'." He grins that wolfish grin again.


Written by an anonymous author (edited by wanderer)

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